I mean, they fixed that with USB-C (after introducing one small USB port, mini-USB, that wasn’t reversible, with the tensioners that wear out on the expensive (device) side and and then introducing micro-USB which fixed the tensioners but still wasn’t reversible).
I’d personally kind of like to have magnetic breakaway connectors or similar so that I can’t damage devices if they fall, especially given that micro-USB and USB-C aren’t the most-physically-robust of connectors. Adapters with proprietary ways to do this exist:
But they aren’t part of the USB spec. If they ever switch to something like that, we’re gonna have another phase of incompatibility.
nonentity@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
USB-A: the 4 dimensional port.